Generalizing Agile Software Development Life Cycle

Abstract — In last decade, various agile methods have been introduced and used by software industry. It has been observed that many practitioners are using hybrid of agile methods and traditional methods. The knowledge of agile software development process about the theoretical grounds, applicability in large development settings and connections to establish software engineering disciplines remain mostly in dark. It has been reported that it is difficult for average manager to implement agile method in the organization. Further, every agile method has its own development cycle that brings technological, managerial and environmental changes in organization. A proper roadmap of agile software development in the form of agile software development life cycle can be developed to address the aforesaid issues of agile software development process. Thus, there is strong need of agile software development life cycle that clearly defines the phases included in any agile method and also describes the artifacts of each phase. This generalization of agile software development life cycle provides the guideline for average developers about usability, suitability, applicability of agile methods. Keywords-Agile software Development; extreme Programming; Adaptive software developmen; Scrum; Agile Method;story.